The following resources were shared with the participants of the Spring '08 NCTAN session held in Chapel Hill by Lane Moore from East Randolph High School. His session was titled "Bringing Vietnam into the Classroom".








Vietnam Stats

Capital:
Hanoi
Population (2005-07-01):
83,535,576 (CIA, 2005)
Area:
329,560 sq.km.
Country code:
vn

Associated links

Native characterset

Vietnam Newspaper Articles

This Word document has the text of several newspaper articles published in 2007 about Vietnam.


Vietnam Economy and Government

This Word document contains a print-out of a presentation given by Alan Coulthart, Infrastructure Coordinator, The World Bank in Vietnam in Hanoi on January 14, 2005.

Vietnam Overview PowerPoint

This presentation is titled:
A Report,
from the Asia Education Foundation’s
LINKING LATITUDES CONFERENCE
Hanoi – Vietnam – 11-16 April, 2004
Ian Gray
Somerville House


Video Clips

In Focus: Vietnam is a project developed by the Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Union College Partnership for Global Education (PGE) in support of its study abroad program in Hanoi, Vietnam. Created in 1999, the PGE is dedicated to exploring the benefits of consortial collaboration in study abroad as well as to developing innovative pre-departure and reentry programming for study abroad students.This site contains video clips (listed below), study guides, and in some cases, image galleries. The links below take you to the pages to watch the short video clips, and to access the study guides and the image galleries.

Historical Overview of Vietnam

Exploring Vietnam: A Woman's Journey

Two Cities: Hanoi and Saigon

The Art of Vietnam

Vietnam's Folk Culture

The Music of Vietnam

The Literature of Vietnam

The Religious Traditions of Vietnam

Memories of Indochina

Vietnam Today

US-Vietnam Relations

The Economy of Vietnam



Movies about Vietnam


Daughter from Danang: American Experience(2002) NR
This is a very touching documentary and is entirely appropriate for students in middle or high school. It should spark a lively debate over what the daughter should or should not do and why. Below is a description of the movie from Netflix:
This documentary follows an adopted American woman -- one of thousands of Vietnamese children who were separated from their families and flown to America in 1975 -- who gets more than she bargained for when she's reunited with her birth mother. The film emphasizes how much culture, rather than innate physical characteristics, can shape an individual. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.